US EPA

2160894 

Journal Article 

AUTOMATED DATA INTERPRETATION IN AN AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY 

Elling, JW; Klatt, LN; Unruh, WP 

1994 

1 

Laboratory Robotics and Automation
ISSN: 0895-7533 

6 

2 

73-78 

WOS:A1994NJ93500003 

The goal of a fully automated laboratory is to generate chemical knowledge from a sample input. To carry this out, a fully automated laboratory will require automated sample preparation, automated instrumental analysis of the sample, and automated interpretation of the data from the instrument. Automated sample analysis and quality-control data interpretation are also necessary to feed back information to the automated sample preparation process.



We are developing an automated gas chromatography (GC) instrument in the contaminant analysis automation (CAA) project modular format and exploring the automated interpretation of the chromatograms generated from each sample. The target for the demonstration of automated analysis and automated data interpretation is Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) method 8080, for organochlorine compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).